Eating Air

Author: Suyin Du Bois

Malaysia

Published on 9 July 2026 by The Emma Press in the United Kingdom as part of 'The Emma Press Poetry Pamphlets' series.

Paperback | 38 pages
128 x 198 x 5mm | 62g

Steam rises from bowls of noodle soup, tender steaks are seared in butter, sand-roasted chestnuts are shared from a paper bag. Suyin Du Bois's Eating Air is a mouth-watering book of poems about food, belonging and connection.

Charting a journey across cuisines and continents, these poems carve into the author’s dual Chinese-Malaysian and Belgian heritage and food’s enduring role in our cultural, familial and personal histories.

From the low stools of Penang’s kopitiams to the bright lights of London’s Chinatown, Eating Air is a love song to food and a poignant catalogue of its profound capacity to serve up memory, language, and longing.